Raquel W.
Principal Business Analyst / Project Manager at EDF Energy North America- Claim this Profile
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Chini Mehta
I have worked with Raquel for several years at Oceaneering and found her to be an excellent manager, team player and very knowledgeable Peoplesoft Analyst. She has a great work ethic and I believe she will drive any team she leads to success.
Marcello Mendes
Raquel is a hands on professional with a strong focus on results. Always leading users to understand they processes and difficulties they are facing, looking for solutions and improvements to achieve them at the highest level of performance. I had the pleasure of working with Raquel on the same team. She rock it!!
Chini Mehta
I have worked with Raquel for several years at Oceaneering and found her to be an excellent manager, team player and very knowledgeable Peoplesoft Analyst. She has a great work ethic and I believe she will drive any team she leads to success.
Marcello Mendes
Raquel is a hands on professional with a strong focus on results. Always leading users to understand they processes and difficulties they are facing, looking for solutions and improvements to achieve them at the highest level of performance. I had the pleasure of working with Raquel on the same team. She rock it!!
Chini Mehta
I have worked with Raquel for several years at Oceaneering and found her to be an excellent manager, team player and very knowledgeable Peoplesoft Analyst. She has a great work ethic and I believe she will drive any team she leads to success.
Marcello Mendes
Raquel is a hands on professional with a strong focus on results. Always leading users to understand they processes and difficulties they are facing, looking for solutions and improvements to achieve them at the highest level of performance. I had the pleasure of working with Raquel on the same team. She rock it!!
Chini Mehta
I have worked with Raquel for several years at Oceaneering and found her to be an excellent manager, team player and very knowledgeable Peoplesoft Analyst. She has a great work ethic and I believe she will drive any team she leads to success.
Marcello Mendes
Raquel is a hands on professional with a strong focus on results. Always leading users to understand they processes and difficulties they are facing, looking for solutions and improvements to achieve them at the highest level of performance. I had the pleasure of working with Raquel on the same team. She rock it!!
Credentials
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Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
Scrum AllianceDec, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Project Management InstituteJul, 2013- Nov, 2024 -
Leader Coach
Behavioral Coaching InstituteDec, 2021- Nov, 2024
Experience
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EDF Energy North America
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United States
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Oil and Gas
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1 - 100 Employee
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Principal Business Analyst / Project Manager
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Mar 2020 - Present
• Worked as a Project Manager for the Credit Risk Management system (Paragon AWS) to MCG Cloud migration project; created the project plan and managed the cross-functional technical team including MCG, Endur, Integration, Retail and Corporate Systems; coordinated the business users to complete testing for the new system, bug fixes and enhancements; managed 2 levels of communication—executive and project team • Managed the automation of employees records and expense payments project between the HR system (UKG) and Expense Management system (Certify) --> As a Project Manager, elaborated the project plan, led the meetings with the project team, organized the project activities by prioritizing the tasks between HR, Finance, IT and Vendor; met stakeholders' expectation, managed vendor deadlines, monitored the project progress, provided updated to variances managing changes, negotiated the SOW --> As a Business Analyst of the project, documented the business requirements, designed the current process and proposed the future process state, worked with the technical team on designing the automated solution, coordinated the testing and educated business users on process change • Led the HR system (UltiPro) SSO implementation integrated with corporate directory (Azure AD) to strengthen IT internal controls by improving security and minimizing risk management. Assisted with testing analysis; coordinated user testing and business approvals. Coordinated interaction between business management, business users, technology management, and vendor • Created the current and future systems landscape diagrams used to communicate with all stakeholders and help for the project vision for the ERP Selection project • Working as a business analyst and helping the project management during the Project LEGO that refers to the global implementation of Workday that EDFT will use in Europe and North America to standardize and simplify Finance and HR services Show less
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Oceaneering
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United States
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Oil and Gas
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700 & Above Employee
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Business Solutions Manager
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Jan 2019 - Feb 2020
Managed a team located in Brazil to ensure timely support and delivery of daily business processing needs. Built and maintained positive collaboration between IT and business areas. Coordinated all aspects of Project Management’s life-cycle and methodology ensuring procedures and best practices were followed and business unit deadlines for Supply Chain/Financials Brazil PeopleSoft and Local Systems were met.
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Sr. Financial Solutions Analyst (USA Corporate)
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May 2015 - Feb 2020
• Responsible for supporting and user training of PeopleSoft Financials Implementations (General Ledger and Account Receivable)• Coordinated the configuration/setup/maintenance/customizations and new implementation of PeopleSoft Financial application• Coordinated all business units & service lines worldwide to ensure be in compliance with overall company PeopleSoft Financial application initiatives• Developed and maintained the executive approval PeopleSoft Financial application business programs• Defined business requirements to meet PeopleSoft Financial application business imperatives• Coordinated the executive initiatives/priorities approvals with management, end users, IT and other support organizations• Coordinated the PeopleSoft Financial application solutions tests, processes and functionalities to ensure delivery of quality solutions• Interfaced with the Business to resolve PeopleSoft Financial application issues including data quality and system performance• Developed “best practices” and standards to ensure business processes are streamlined and business goals are achieved• Ensured effective organizational change management for PeopleSoft Financial application including training, communications, and organizational alignment• Measured and reported the impact of the PeopleSoft Financial application on business process efficiency, effectiveness and user satisfaction• Supervised oversees team (Brazil Business Solutions) Show less
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PeopleSoft - Business Systems Analyst
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Jun 2008 - Feb 2020
Functional Analysis of PeopleSoft Financials Implementation, Support of Business needs and Training the Users. Main responsibilities:Analyzing the user’s environment and identifying issues in regards to its ICT systems(Oracle ERP and Local Systems) and processes to check if they are accordingly to thebest practices available;• Working independently with users to formulate and document business requirementsto provide the best solution according to the products offered by the company;• Using project management methodologies to develop projects, manageimplementation and enhancements of PeopleSoft Oracle Systems and Local Systems;• Responsible for PeopleSoft Financial Systems Solutions, working as business systemspecialist;• Leading new projects implementation and new enhancement request of Financialsapplication such as: Billing module, Account Receivable module, Account Payablemodule, Project Costing module, Expense module and General Ledger module.Supporting users’ requirements.• Developing functional specifications for enhancements requests and users needs;• Providing support during Accounting/Finance’s monthly closure period and othermajor financial milestones of the company;• Promoting use and acceptance of project methodology and documentation standars;• Developing ideas for system improvements to enhance user satisfaction, and mitigatechronic system problems that generate repetitive trouble services requests;• Providing functional system support in order to solve systems issues;• Creating user and training documentation and conducting formal training sessions forthe three offices;• Leading important projects to be in compliance with Brazilian legislation that has beenchanged for different requirements of reports, fiscal and accounting requirements andstatutory reports that the company needs to provide to the government;• Creating queries using SQL language to provide reports to the business to analyze; Show less
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Application Support Specialist
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Oct 2011 - Apr 2015
Leading the PeopleSoft Financials Implementation, Supporting and User Training.
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Quanam
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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200 - 300 Employee
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Functional PeopleSoft Consultant
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Mar 2006 - May 2008
Responsible for analysis, design, planning, execution and user training of PeopleSoft Financials Project as PeopleSoft Consultant. Main responsibilities: • Analyzing, designing and planning the user requirements following the Project Scope of Oracle Peoplesoft Implementation; • Working as functional consultant of ERP with customers to formulate and document business requirements to provide the best solution according to the best practices of Oracle PeopleSoft; • Identifying inefficiencies and developing functional specifications with enhancements and business needs to be implemented; • Using Quanam Project Management Methodologies in order to provide the best practices to the Customers; • Responsible for PeopleSoft Functional tasks during Peopleosft Account Receivable Project implementation; • Responsible for PeopleSoft Functional tasks during Peopleosft Account Payable Project implementation; • Responsible for PeopleSoft Functional tasks during Peopleosft Purchasing Contracts Project implementation; • Promoting user acceptance of project methodology and documentation standards; • Creating user and training documentation and conducting formal training to the Customers; • Estimating timelines and resources needed to ensure a successful System Implementation Go-Live; Main Projects Implementation: • PeopleSoft Account Receivable 8.9 - Customer: SulAmerica Company (Rio de Janeiro city) • PeopleSoft Purchasing Contracts 8.0 - Customer: BrasilCap Company (Rio de Janeiro city) • PeopleSoft Account Payable 8.0 - Customer: Porto Seguro Cia Company (São Paulo city) Tools: • Financials Peoplesoft/SupplyChain (Oracle) modules (Account Receivable, Account Payable, Purchasing Contracts). • SQL Language – Query Tools • Oracle Application Design (Functional knowledge) • Microsoft Project Show less
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HB Global
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Functional PeopleSoft Consultant
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Sep 2005 - Feb 2006
Responsible for analysis, design, planning, execution and user training of PeopleSoft Financials Project as Peoplesoft Consultant. Responsible for analysis, design, planning, execution and user training of PeopleSoft Financials Project as Peoplesoft Consultant.
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Functional PeopleSoft Consultant
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Jan 2004 - Aug 2005
Responsible for analysis, design, planning, execution and user training of PeopleSoft Financials Project as Peoplesoft Consultant. Responsible for analysis, design, planning, execution and user training of PeopleSoft Financials Project as Peoplesoft Consultant.
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Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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System Analyst
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Jan 2000 - 2004
• Responsible for analysis, functional specification and working with users to negotiate user needs and formulate documentation of user requirements during the Projects below: o Academic System, o Institutional Judiciary System (CPGAJ-UNISC) o Digital Data Project for Theses and Dissertations (BDTD-UNISC) o Free Software Project RS (PSL-RS) • Developing report as per user requirement for Academic Systems; • Providing user training; • Team leader for Investment System Implementation; • Responsible for user support of Academic System, Institutional Judiciary System, Digital Data Project for Theses and Dissertations, Software Livre Project RS, Investment System Implementation; • Developing systems using Ingress, PHP languages. Working with Erwin for data modeling and working with PostgeSQL, MySQL Data Base and MSSQL data base during the implementation and system support; • Developing ideas for system improvements to enhance user satisfaction, and mitigate chronic system problems that generate repetitive trouble services requests; • Team leader of Free Software projects in order to save money for University. • Coordinating the First Forum of Information Technology promoted by TI department; • Participating of Free Software Journey in Montevideo-Uruguay as panelist representing the University and exposing the projects implementation; Main Projects Implementation and Tools: • Academic System Tools: Data Modeling Concepts, Erwin v3.x Data Modeling Introduction, CA-OpenRoad/Windows 4GL, CA-OpenIngres-Fundamentals, CA-OpenIngres SQL Uses, CA-OpenIngres Report Writer, Ingres II Database Administration, OpenIngres System Administration. • Institutional Judiciary System (CPGAJ-UNISC) • Digital Data Project for Theses and Dissertations (BDTD-UNISC) • Software Livre Project RS (PSL-RS) Tools: Linux system, PHP Language, UML, PostgreSQL and MySql Data Bases • Investment System Implementation Tools: Database MSSQL Server 7.0 Show less
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Education
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2014 - 2016
Ibmec
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance -
2013 - 2013
Discover English
English Certification, Discover English School, Melbourne, Australia -
2009 - 2009
EF International Language Campuses
English Certification, EF International School of English, Toronto, Canadá -
2007 - 2007
Dinsmore Associates
PMP Certification, Training Program in Project Management -
2002 - 2003
Fundação Getúlio Vargas
MBA - Information Technology Managment -
1995 - 2000
Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul
Computer Science -
1998 - 1998
Universidad de Málaga
Bachelor's degree, Universidad de Málaga
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